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Global Warming : Public Nuisance

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Post date September 30, 2009
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The floodgates of change may well open in the United States of America. It appears that power companies can be brought to court for the public nuisance of Global Warming…

https://www.thepoptort.com/2009/09/yowsa-major-environmental-ruling-in-greenhouse-gas-case.html

“September 30, 2009 : Yowsa! Major Environmental Ruling in Greenhouse Gas Case!”

“Corporate polluters have been getting hauled into court for many years for lotsa reasons, one being that their dirty activities are a “public nuisance”…”

“Well now, thanks to a landmark New York federal court ruling, this “public nuisance” theory has been applied in a major global warming case brought by eight states, New York City and environmental groups.”

“In a nutshell, the court panel (which consisted of two Republican appointees) found that the nation’s largest coal-burning utilities could be held accountable for global warming.”

Tags Climate Change, corporate environmental responsibility, Energy, Global Warming

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Good Faith Can Move Mountains

Post author By Jo
Post date September 30, 2009
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The British Climate Change Minister Ed Miliband has admitted at the Labour Party Conference that there are low commitment levels to dealing with the causes of Global Warming :-

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Time To Stop Playing Along

Post author By Jo
Post date September 29, 2009
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When I was asked to review a chunk of the 2008 Climate Safety report from the Public Interest Research Centre, I was less than positive about the social movement building outlined in the recommendations for “mobilisation” of the public (see below).

Tim Holmes, one of the people involved in the Climate Safety report, has started a new web log critiquing the very same issues :-

https://convenientlies.wordpress.com

https://convenientlies.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/greenwashing-government/

Tags Climate Change, Climate Safety, direct action, Mass Mobilisation

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The Good, the Bald and the Beautiful

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Post date September 29, 2009
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There are a couple of compilations of facts out this week that are a mix of the good, the bald and the beautiful.

Note to any journalists reading : if you don’t understand the significance of any of the following facts, don’t hesitate to ask.

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The Great Repatriation

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The “Big Dry” continues in Australia. News this week confirms that the Murray River is in dire straits and that Adelaide may soon be without drinking water as a result :-

https://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/28/adelaide-water-drought

“Adelaide latest victim of global water shortages : Australia’s fifth-largest city could be reliant on bottled water as early as next week as overuse and drought stretch the Murray river to its limit…”

Tags Climate Change, Climate Refugees, migration, water stress

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Let’s Talk Paleoclimatology

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Post date September 29, 2009
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https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/news/latest/four-degrees.html

The word that no one dares mention, for fear of tripping over their own tongues : paleoclimatology, the study of Earth’s Climate history, on the long scale.

The presentations from the 4 Degrees conference are being uploaded to the Internet website :-

https://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/4degrees/programme.php

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James Delingpole Is Most Definitely Misguided

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Post date September 29, 2009
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My attention has been turned, once more, to the writing of James Delingpole this week.

https://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100011716/how-the-global-warming-industry-is-based-on-one-massive-lie/

This article, in my view, contains a number of pieces of misleading information, which in my view should be re-framed into their proper context by the author.

Tags Climate Change, disinformation, Global Warming, journalism, Propaganda, Science

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This Is Not A Doomsday Scenario

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Post date September 29, 2009
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Dr Richard Betts of the British Meteorological Office speaking at the 4 Degrees (and beyond) conference in Oxford this week :-

https://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/4degrees/programme.php

“It’s important to stress it’s not a doomsday scenario, we do have time to stop it happening if we cut greenhouse gas emissions soon.”

Some of the potential problems from a four degree average rise in global temperature are being outlined to the conference.

There are spectacular regional warming issues, most notably for the Arctic region.

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Let’s Get Serious

The Copenhagen Agenda is unwieldy and littered with areas of dispute :-

https://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2009/awglca7/eng/inf02.pdf

https://unfccc.int/documentation/documents/advanced_search/items/3594.php?rec=j&priref=600005444#beg

Tags Climate Change, United Nations

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All Shook Up

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Students of Chaos Theory well know what is known as the Butterfly Effect – apparently small changes in system forcings result in major outcomes.

We’ve heard repeatedly about rising sea levels resulting from Global Warming, but there are more bugs crawling out of the woodwork now.

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The Four Degrees

People always talking ’bout two degrees. For the last ten years. But now, almost overnight, people whispering four degrees under their breath. And shivering, in a kind of anxious, fearful manner.

What, I want to know, happened to the three degrees ? Why do we have to jump all the way to four degrees straight away ? Can’t we do it gradually ? Give ourselves some time to adjust, and chill.

This could all happen within 50 years ? You mean it’s all happening sooner than we thought ? Oh. My.

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The Trials of The Philippines

Post author By Jo
Post date September 28, 2009
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Not just a rainy weekend :-

Image Credit : Click Photo

Tags Climate Change, flood, storm

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A Subsidy By Any Other Name

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Post date September 27, 2009
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There’s the real world. And then there’s “Daily Telegraph world”, a fantasy mindscape, it seems to me.

In yet another piece that seems to be written for the sole purpose of attacking wind power, massaged in under the banner of standing up for the fuel poor :-

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/6236920/Taxing-the-fuel-poor-to-bolster-subsidised-companies-is-a-waste-of-energy.html

is this outstanding piece of reporting about Atomic Energy in the United Kingdom :-

“Nuclear, by contrast, is unsubsidised.”

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Read this Book, Watch these Charts

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Post date September 27, 2009
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https://www.desmogblog.com/climate-cover-up

https://www.climateshifts.org/?p=3008

https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/

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Meltdown : Painting by Numbers

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Post date September 27, 2009
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Letter to James Delingpole (2)

Post author By Jo
Post date September 27, 2009
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Dear Mr Delingpole,

When I politely enquired of you recently regarding your qualification to pronounce on Climate Change science, I did hope that you would reply to me in a similarly polite manner.

After all, we’re both professionals, in our own ways, aren’t we ? And it would be unsporting to be rude or underhanded, wouldn’t it ?

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The Unemotional Jeremy Clarkson

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Post date September 27, 2009
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According to The Peoples’ Jeremy Clarkson, and the IPPR, the facts appear to show that people are “bored” with Climate Change.

https://www.ippr.org/pressreleases/?id=3724

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/6233221/Jeremy-Clarkson-People-are-bored-of-climate-change.html

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Joanne Nova : Whiny Teenager

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Post date September 26, 2009
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The Global Warming sceptic-o-sphere is alight with loud complaining again, from one calling herself Joanne Nova.

When I first encountered this name, I was convinced this wasn’t a real person. I now know that there is a real person behind the name, but I still think it’s a made-up one. A stage name. After all, this person was an employee in a travelling theatrical show, ostensibly about science, run by the Shell corporation.

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Dustbowl Sydney

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All of a sudden, Sydney, Australia took on the appearance of a filmset for a Martian science fiction drama. The cause : a massive duststorm. The reason ? Massive national drought brought on by Climate Change.

Tags Climate Change, desertification

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Jennifer Marohasy : Muddying the Water

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Post date September 25, 2009
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Jennifer Marohasy is muddying the water again in Australia, with a piece entitled “Why I am an Anthropogenic Global Warming Sceptic (Part 3)”.

She quotes a disputed work by one, Lawrence Solomon, called “The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud”.

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Letter to The Spectator

Re : Rod Liddle’s science education
To : letters@spectator.co.uk

Dear The Spectator,

I read with chagrin the following statement from Rod Liddle in a piece entitled “Moonbat” :-

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Letter to James Delingpole

Post author By Jo
Post date September 24, 2009
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James Delingpole writes a web log for the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

I find his pronouncements about Global Warming contentious, and littered with sceptical myths and denier legends.

It seemed like a good moment to enquire about his education, to check whether his ideological background can lend weight to his commentary, or in contrast, set him up to be a lightweight.

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The Spectator : Playground Bullies ?

Post author By Jo
Post date September 24, 2009
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Virtually all the world’s nations, a very significant proportion of the world’s science bodies, countless universities, research establishments, and even major oil companies accept the facts of man-made Global Warming.

But that doesn’t stop commentators at The Spectator magazine from not only attacking Climate Change science, but also scientists and writers who are experts in the field. Some could say it makes them look foolish. Or illiterate.

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